Vehicle-wheel.



A. H. HARRIS.

VEHICLE WHEEL. APPLIOATION PIL-BD DBO. 3. 1910.v

1,049,579'. Patented 1111.111113.

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VEHICLE-WHEEL.

v p Specification off Letters Patent. Application led December 3, 1910.` Serial No. 595.442.

Patented J an. 7, 19,13.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHER H. HARRIS, a

citizen ofthe United States, residing at Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements'in VehiclelV heels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

My invention relates lto vehicle wheels, but more particularly to truck wheels having lresilient or cushion tires made up of' independent elastic sections or blocks, and to means for securely retaining such blocks inoperative position. p y

' It has for its ob-'ect to provide vehicles, especially trucks and wagons for heavy hauling, wlth wheels and tires .of unusualA strength and durability, tires made up of independent sections conveniently applied to or removed from a wheel rim as occaslon may demand or suggest; tires formed of independent sections or blocks as aforesaid, arranged and adapted to prevent skidding; and tires including fastening or attaching means which eifectually prevents creeping of the tire upon its supporting wheel-rim.

With these and otherobjects and advantages in View the present inventlon comprises certain structural features, the ar-- rangement and combination thereof, as hereinai'ter yparticularly described and pointed out in the claims following. y

In vthe accompanying drawings lwhich form part of this application 'and whereon like numerals indicate corresponding parts in the several views: Figure 1 represents a `iange broken away exposing to view thev transverse sectional view of the invention taken through a wheel felly, anges, two individual tire 4sections or blocks, and. one

`compound metallic attaching or retaining frame. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view of the` invention in side elevatlon, with one wheelbase of said individual tire blocks or seclions. Fig. .3 is a plan view of parts shown removable side flanges, 3 transverse boltsY for securing saidflanges to the felly 1 of a wheel, and 4 an endless metallic rimencircling felly 1v at its periphery, all of well known construction and arrangement.

The numeral 5 indicates individual elas- 'tic tirevsections or blocks each having an integral surrounding base-flange 6 and resting iirmly upon the felly-encircling band 4, as shown by Figs. 1 and 2, but in staggered 'relation as best shown by Fig. 3. Over each pair of tire-blocks 5 is placed an attaching 'and interlocking frame 7 of relatively stili' v sheet metal, or of any suitable. material, curved as shown byFig. 5 in conformity with the radius of the wheel and comprising two rectangular compartments of increased width at their `juncture as shown at 8, and there perforated by 'a bolt or screw hole 9 preferably about thecenter of said connecting web 8. This double skeleton frame 7 is so positioned in practice that Vits individual compartments 10, completely sur' round their respective tire blocks 5 resting upon the outer surface of the block flanges or enlarged bases 6 andextend collectively 'from side to side A,of the structure where they interlock beneath the clenching inturned edges of wheel flanges 2, 2 as best shown by Fig. 1. While at an intermediate point each of said double and interlocking frames is'irmly secured against the possi- A bility of' slipping. circumferentially or otherwise, by, agency of machine screws 11 passing loosely through screw holes 9 -in web 8, thence between the abutting portions of tire sections or blocks 5, and finally into the endless band 4 which encircles felly 1. Y

The foregoing being a description of my invention in its best form of construction at present known to me, it should. be understoodthat the invention is broad enough to include any form and arrangement? of atcaching and interlocking frame `such as 7 -operating substantially as hereinbefore described, provided the. individual openings or ycompartments 10 of such frame embrace and interlock with a plurality of individual Vtire sections or blocks in circumferential series, but in any event it is desirable in dualV or multiple tires to stagger ythe blocks 51transversely across the wheel rim in brick-wise arrangement as shown, or, in other words, to break joints for the well understood purpose of avoiding unnecessary vibrations at the point ofcontact with a road bed, to,

prevent skidding, and to insure superior traction. Moreover, it will be particularly noted that owing to the form, structural arrangement, and relative position of the parts hereinbefore described, all shocks or strains imparted to any one block 5 at its point of contact with the ground, or with anyv unusual object, is resisted not only by the block in direct contact but by that block or those blocks with which 'it is interlocked by agency of the frames 7 and their attaching screws l1. Thus two or more tire sections or blocks are intel-locked by means of their particular attaching frame 7, and the latter in turn is interlocked at its opposite sides by flanges 2, 2 of the wheel rims when properly drawn up by bolts 3 as parts are assembled in operative relation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In a vehicle wheel the combination with a. cii'cumferential series of skeleton frames crossing the wheel tread diagonally and having independent compartments offset with relation to each other, of a multiplicity of individual tire blocks in brickwise arrangement projectin outward through said compartments eac block havingv an enlarged base coinciding with the margins of said frames by which they are bound down, and means for securing said frames to .the wheel.

2. In a vehicle wheel the combination with a circumferential series of skeleton frames crossing the wheel tread diagonally and havin independent compartments offset with re ation to each other, of a multiplicity of individual tire blocks in brickwise arrangement projecting outward through said compartments each block having an enlarged base coinciding with the margins of said frames by which they are bound down, and screws intermediate of theadjacent compartments of each of said frames for securing them to the wheel.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature, in presence of two subscribing witnesscs.

ARCHER H. HARRIS.

`Witnesses JOHN A. MORNEWECK, T. MATCHETT. 

